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OLD   YORK  LIBRARY 


—  OLD   YORK  FOUNDATION 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 

in  2013 


http://archive.org/details/greaternewyorkil00rand_2 


Greater  New  York 

ILLUSTRATED. 


OVER  ONE   HUNDRED  AND   FIFTY   PHOTOGRAPHIC  VIEWS  OF  THE 
FOREMOST  CITY  OF  THE  WESTERN  HEMISPHERE. 


1901 : 

RAND,  McNALLY  &  COMPANY,  PUBLISHERS, 
Chicago  and  New  York. 


Copyright,  1897,  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Co. 
Copyright,  1899,  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Co. 
Copyright,  1901,  by  Rand,  McNally  &  Co. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

American  Museum  of  Natural  History    ...  195 

American  Surety  Co.'s  Building  59 

American  Tract  "Society's  Building  81 

Astor,  Mrs.  John  Jacob,  Residence  of  ....  171 
Battery  Park  and  New  York  Bay,  from  Roof  of 

Washington  Building   9 

Blackwell's  Island,  South  End  37 

Bolivar,  Statue  of  49 

Bowling  Green  Building  47 

Bridges,  Prospect  Pa-k,  Brooklyn  247 

Brighton  Beach,  Coney  Island  251 

Broad  Street,  Looking  South  from  Wall  Street  .  71 
Broad  Street,  Looking  North  from  Beaver  .  .  75 
Broadway  and  Bond  Street  to  Tenth  Street  .  .  105 
Broadway  and  Fifth  Avenue,  Junction  of  .  .  127 
Broadway  from  Tenth  Streetto  Union  Square  .  109 
Broadway,  Looking  North  from  Exchange  Place  55 

Brooklyn  Bridge  235 

Brooklyn,  Fulton  and  Court  Streets  241 

Brooklyn  Savings  Bank   243 

Casino   149 

Castle  William,  Governor's  Island, New  York  Hay  19 

Central  Park,  East  Drive  181 

Central  Park,  Fountain  and  Lake   185 

Central  Park,  View  of  183 

Century  Club  163 

Church  and  Library,  Sailors'  Snug  Harbor,  Sta- 

ten  Island   29 

Church  Missions  House,  Entrance  159 

City  Hall  Park  and  New  Buildings  on  Broadway  91 

Coffee  Exchange  ".  63 

College  of  Pharmacy   155 

Colonial  Club  203 

Columbia  University,  Library  of  209 

Columbus  Monument  177 

Cotikling,  Roscoe,  Statue  of  89 

Consolidated  Stock  and  Petroleum  Exchange  .  51 

Corn  Exchange  Bank   65 

Criminal  Courts  and  the  Tombs  103 

Dakota  Flats  201 

David  Island  39 

Delmonico's  61 

Dun  Building  77 

Empire  Building  57 

Fidelity  &  Casualty  Co.'s  Building  63 

Fifth  Avenue,  Fifty-first  to  Fifty-second  Street,  161 
Fifth  Avenue,  Looking  North  from  One  Hundred 

and  Twenty-sixth  Street  225 

Fifth  Avenue,  Looking  South  from  Twenty- 
second  Street  131 

Fifth  Avenue  Theater  135 

Fire  Headquarters,  Brooklyn  239 

Fort  Schuyler   39 

Fort  Wadsworth,  Staten  Island  19 

Fourth  Avenue,  from  Twenty-first  to  Twenty- 
third  Street  129 


Gansevoort  Market  117 

Grace  Church  107 

Grand  Central  Station  151 

Grant's  Tomb,  Riverside  Drive  221 

Hale,  Nathan,  Statue  of  89 

Hall  of  Architectural  Casts,  Metropolitan  Mu- 
seum of  Art  189 

Herald  Building  .  143 

High  Bridge  233 

Holland  House  145 

Hotel  Waldorf-Astoria  147 

Hotel  Majestic  199 

Hotel  Margaret,  Columbia  Heights,  Brooklyn  237 

Hotel  New  Netherland  173 

Hotel  Savoy  173 

Huntington,  Collis  P.,  Residence  of  171 

Judson  Memorial  Baptist  Church   'M 

Jumel  Mansion    231 

Knickerbocker  Theater  149 

Liberty,  Statue  of,  Front  View,  from  Southeast  23 
Liberty,  Statue  of,  Side  View,  from  West   .    .  25 
Liberty,   Statue  of,  View  from   Entrance  of 
Pedestal,  Looking  toward  New  York     .    .  27 

Life  Building  139 

Looking  Southwest  from  New  York  and  Brook- 
lyn Bridge  13 

Looking  South  from  New  York  and  Brooklyn 

Bridge  15 

Madison  Square  Garden    .   .    .   .  137 

Mail  and  Express  Building  79 

Manhattan  Life  Insurance  Co.'s  Building    .    .  53 

Matthews,  J.  H.,  Residence  of  205 

May  Parties,  Central  Park  191 

Memorial  Arch,  Brooklyn  233 

Metropolitan  Club  153 

Metropolitan  Museum  of  Art  187 

Metropolitan  Opera  House  143 

Montauk  Club,  Brooklyn  245 

Moonlight  on  New  York  Bay  21 

Morningside  Park  227 

National  Shoe  &  Leather  Bank  95 

New  York  Bay  from  Battery   7 

New  York  Bay,  a  Misty  Morning  on   ....  17 

New  York  City  Hall  97 

New  York  Clearing  House  61 

New  York  Life  Building  101 

New  York  Post  Office  85 

New  York  Stock  Exchange,  Interior  of   .    .    .  73 

Normal  College  193 

Ocean  Steamers  in  Berths,  North  River    ...  41 

Ocean  Steamer  Outward  Bound  255 

Oyster  Row  115 

Park  Row  Building  87 

Physics,  Department  of  153 

Printing  House  Square  93 

Produce  Exchange  49 


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Prospect  Park,  Brooklyn  249 

Residences,  Northeast  Corner  Madison  Avenue 

and  Fiftieth  Street  165 

Riverside  Drive  and  Grant's  Tomb  219 

Riverside  Drive.  Looking  North  from  Grant's 

Tomb  215 

Riverside  Drive,  Looking  North  from  One  Hun- 
dred and  Twelfth  Street   211 

Riverside  Drive,  Looking  North  from  One  Hun- 
dred and  Twentieth  Street  213 

Riverside  Drive  and  One  Hundred  and  Eighth 

Street  207 

Salvation  Army  Building  119 

Sectional  Dry  Dock  and  Brooklyn  Navy  Yard  .  35 

Seventy-first'  Regiment  Armory  141 

Singer  Building  77 

Sixth  Avenue,  Looking  North  from  Fourteenth 
Street  Station  of  Elevated  Railroad    ...  121 

Society  of  American  Artists  163 

Some  New  York  Statues   175 

Sound  Steamer  leaving  North  River  Pier  ...  33 
South  Street,  Looking  South  from  Coenties 

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South  Street,  Scenes  on  45 

St.  Bartholomew's  Parish  House  155 

St.  Francis  Xavier  Church,  Interior  of  .    .    .    .  125 

St.  James  Building  133 

St.  Luke's  Hospital  223 

St.  Patrick's  Cathedral  157 

St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  Interior  of  159 

St.  Paul  Building  •  83 

St.  Thomas  Church  167 

Temple  Beth-El  145 

Temporary  Tomb  of  General  Grant  217 

The  Mall,  Central  Park  i79 

Tiffany,  Charles,  Residence  of  197 

Trinity  Church,  from  Wall  Street  67 

Union  League  Club  231 

Union  Square  123 

United  States  Sub-Treasury  69 

United  States  Trust  Co  65 

Vanderbilt,  Cornelius,  Residence  of  ...  .  169 
View  from  Brooklyn,  showing  East  River  Bridge  5 

View  from  Grant's  Tomb  217 

View  from  North  River   5 

View  Looking  Northeast  from  Roof  of  Office 

Building,  66  Broadway  31 

View  Looking  Southwest"  from  Roof  of  Office 

Building,  66  Broadway  11 

Wall  Street  and  Trinity  Church  67 

War  Vessel  in  New  York  Harbor  253 

Washington  Bridge  229 

Washington  Memorial  Arch  m 

West  Street,  Looking  North  from  Rector  Street  99 
Work  House,  Blackwell's  Island  37 


3 


LOWER  PART  OF  MANHATTAN  BOROUGH  IN  1899— View  from  North  River. 

5 


VIEW  LOOKING  SOUTHWEST   FROM   ROOF  OF  OFFICE  BUILDING,  66  BROADWAY. 

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COPYRIGHT,  1890,  BY  S.  R.  STODDARD. 

MOONLIGHT  ON  NEW  YORK  BAY. 


CHURCH  AND  LIBRARY,  SAILOR'S  SNUG  HARBOR— West  New  Brighton,  Staten  Island. 

R.  W.  Gibson,  Architect. 

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SOUND  STEAMER  LEAVING  NORTH  RIVER  PIER. 

33 


DAVID  ISLAND  — Long  Island  Sound. 

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between  Broadway  and  Nassau  Street. 
R.  W.  GIBSON,  Architect. 


DELMONICO'S— Corner  Beaver  and  South  William  Streets. 
Jas.  Brown  Lord,  Architect. 


CORN  EXCHANGE  BANK  —  Corner  William 
Beaver  Streets. 
R.  H.  Robertson,  Architect. 


65 


UNITED  STATES  TRUST  CO.— 45  Wall  Street. 
R.  W.  Gibson,  Architect. 


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STATUE  OF  ROSCOE  CONKLING  —  Madison  Square. 


89 


STATUE  OF  NATHAN  HALE  —  City  Hall  Park. 


99 


OYSTER  ROW  — West  Street,  near  Foot  of  Eleventh  Street. 

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TEMPLE  BETH-EL,  HEBREW  — Southeast  Corner 
Fifth  Avenue  and  Seventy-sixth  Street. 
Brunner  &  Tryox,  Architects. 


HOLLAND  HOUSE  — Southwest  Corner  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Thirtieth  Street. 
Geo.  E.  Harding  &  Gooch,  Architects. 


CASINO  AND   KNICKERBOCKER  THEATER  —  Broadway,  Thirty-ninth  to  Thirty-eighth  Street. 

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GRAND  CENTRAL  STATION  — 


Forty-second  Street,  Vanderbilt  Avenue,  and  Depew  Place. 
151 


ST.  BARTHOLOMEW'S  PARISH  HOUSE  — 205  East 
Forty-second  Street. 
Renwick,  Aspinwall  &  Renwick,  Architects. 


COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY— 115  West  Sixty-eighth  Street. 
Little  &  O'Connor,  Architects. 


155 


RESIDENCE  OF  CORNELIUS  VANDERB1LT  — Fifth  Avenue,  Fifty-seventh  to  Fifty-eighth  Street. 

George  B.  Post,  Architect. 
169 


HOTEL  NEW  NETHERLAND— Northeast  Corner  Fiftb 
Avenue  and  Fifty-ninth  Street. 
Wm.  H.  Hume,  Architect. 


HOTEL  SAVOY  — Southeast  Corner  Fifth  Avenue  and 
Fifty-ninth  Street. 
Ralph  H.  Townsend,  Architect. 


THE  MALL,  CENTRAL  PARK. 
179 


FOUNTAIN  AND  LAKE  —  Central  Park. 
185 


THE  METROPOLITAN  MUSEUM  OF  ART  — Central  Park,  near  Fifth  Avenue  and  Eighty-second  Street. 

187 


METROPOLITAN  MUSEUM  OF  ART  — Hall  of  Architectural  Casts. 

189 


MAY  PARTIES,  CENTRAL  PARK, 
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NORMAL  COLLEGE  —  Park  and  Lexington  Avenues,  Sixty-eighth  to  Sixty-ninth  Street. 

193 


RESIDENCE  OF  CHARLES  L.  TIFFANY  —  Northwest  Corner  Madison  Avenue  and  Seventy-second  Street. 

McKlM,  Mead  &  White,  Architects. 
197 


HOTEL  MAJESTIC  — Central  Park  (West),  Seventy-first  to  Seventy-second  Street. 

ALFRED  Zucker,  Architect. 

199 


THE  DAKOTA  FLATS  — Northwest  Corner  Central  Park  (West)  and  Seventy -second  Street. 

H.  J.  Hardenburg,  Architect. 
20 1 


COLONIAL  CLUB— Boulevard  and  Seventy-second  Street. 
Henry  F.  Kilburn,  Architect. 
203 


RESIDENCE  OF  JOHN  H.  MATTHEWS,  ESQ.— Northwest  Corner  Riverside  Drive  and  Ninetieth  Street. 

Lamb  &  Rich,  Architects. 
205 


RESIDENCE  SAMUEL  G.  BAYNE.  FRANK  FREEMAN,  Architect. 


RIVERSIDE  DRIVE  AND  ONE  HUNDRED  AND  EIGHTH  STREET. 

207 


211 


RIVERSIDE  DRIVE— Looking-  North  from  Grant's  Tomb. 

215 


GRANT'S  TOMB,  RIVERSIDE  DRIVE. 


ST.  LUKE'S  HOSPITAL  —  West  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  Street. 
View  from  Morningside  Park. 


223 


FIFTH  AVENUE,  LOOKING  NORTH  FROM  ONE  HUNDRED  AND  TWENTY-SIXTH  STREET. 

225 


THE  WASHINGTON  BRIDGE  — Across  Harlem  River,  from  One  Hundred  and  Eighty-first  Street  and  Tenth  Avenue 

to  Aqueduct  Avenue. 


229 


THE  JUMEL  MANSION  —  Washington  Heights. 
(Once  Washington's  Headquarters.) 


THE  UNION  LEAGUE  CLUB  — Northwest  Corner  Fifth 
Avenue  and  Thirty-ninth  Street. 


PROMENADE. 

NEW   YORK  AND   BROOKLYN  BRIDGE. 


235 


STATUE  OF  HENRY  WARD  HEECHER. 


FULTON  AND  COURT  STREETS,  BROOKLYN. 
241 


MONTAUK  CLUB,  BROOKLYN  —  Eighth  Avenue  and  Lincoln  Place. 
Francis  H.  Kimball,  Architect. 
245 


V. 


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IN  PROSPECT  PARK,  3RO0KLYN. 

249 


WAR  VESSEL  IN  NEW  YORK  HARBOR  —  Armored  Cruiser  "  New  York." 

253 


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